The spiritualist movement rose at about the same time photography was invented. Therefore, it was no wonder that the earliest use of trick photography was to show evidence of spirits that one could communicate with -for a small fee. Buzzfeed has a collection of quite a few of these “spirit” pictures. Link

The Man That Cues the Laughter Wally Feresten has been holding up cue cards for cast members and nervous guest hosts on Saturday Night Live for 22 years.
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Bullfighting: In Pictures No matter if you’re of the opinion that bullfighting is barbaric or a beautiful art form, these startling pictures will probably solidify that opinion. Be [...]

Michael Shindler is taking photography back to the old school with his series of tintype portraits, which cast modern people in an antiquated light.
I like the haunted look of the people in these portraits, the ways their eyes are lit up and how the shallow depth of field makes all that surrounds their head blur [...]

Abraham Lincoln broke ground for U.S. presidents in many ways, one of them for being photographed. Photography was still in its infancy, but we can go back and see how the man actually looked as he ran for congress, campaigned for president, supervised the Civil War, etc etc. I really like this picture of Lincoln [...]

“QUANTUM SHOT” #325(rev)
Link – article by Avi Abrams
One Ordinary Drop of Water: Liquid Art & Droplet Photography
It certainly takes great skill and very good equipment to create these frozen-in-time “water sculptures”, in every captured frame revealing the inherent energy and the beautiful dynamics of flowing, cascading and dripping water:
(“Dew-Soaked Dandelions” by Sharon Johnstone, see more [...]

Photographer Fernando Martins of Camera
Clara Photography Studio is angry. Very angry.
Fernando is miffed that stock photography – those generic images of models
that you can buy for cheap – are competing with his own high-quality photography
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The late Don Hong-Oa was born in China and lived in Vietnam and the United States. He practiced a particular form of photography that realistically mimicked traditional Chinese ink drawings. It’s like the inverse of photorealisic painting.
Link -via Gizmodo | Photo Credit

I don’t know about you guys, but I love nighttime photography. While I may not have the skills to do it myself, photographers who are interested in improving their night shots will probably love the video tips over at Shutter Salt. For the rest of us though, the incredible images are enough to enjoy.
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I’m sure we can all agree that it’s important to keep kids safe from the big dangers of this world, but there is certainly a line between safety and stupidity and many schools these days have jumped right over that border. Cracked ha a great list of the most idiotic things schools are doing in [...]

Photo: Jason Travis
I was fascinated by this photography project by Jason Travis . His project intended to “capture a portion of [his subjects'] lives in terms of what each individual considered essential enough to carry around with them everyday” which is a pretty interesting concept when you think about it. It made me think twice [...]